May purchase this drum kit for other drummers to use when hiring me as their engineer .....thoughts on this for Mooch's recording studio?


After reading up on it ..the set is actually made of birch and oak ....

Anyway .... Thoughts on it . Drummers please educate mooch 

Link below 







http://chicago.craigslist.org/sox/msg/3182428363.html

Probably 8 ply shells with 7 birch inner layers and an outer layer of maple (makes it less expensive to finish).

In general, Mapex has a reputation for good quality shells and hardware. Birch has a reputation for a bright sound.  With careful tuning it should make a reasonable and cost effective recording kit.

I have not heard good things about the snare drum that come with the M-Birch series (but this is not through personal experience).

With respect to the Sabian B8 cymbals … this is strictly my opinion … they are not really professional cymbals.

So, after negotiating the price down a bit …

on the positive side you will be getting a nice shell pack and solid hardware

on the negative side you will be getting a set of practice cymbals and a wimpy snare drum

Get it!

Dave's right about it's shortcomings but for that price it is a no brainer.

Those Tom sizes are perfect for the studio.

The snare might work well in the context of the rest of the kit, so may the cymbals even if they are 'pressed' rather than 'cast', when you are recording that may even be a good thing as the cymbals are less likely to overpower the overhead mics anyway.

For the price and the starting point if will give you in the studio you can't go wrong.

If it sounds like crap there's always drum replacement software..

Has the purchased been approved by your new boss?

craigb


Has the purchased been approved by your new boss?

Oh yeah ...from our wedding gift mony...1000 has been approved for my fun by the chose one 




Thanks Jon and quantum .....maybe I'll look at getting a different snare and slowly adding better hardware 




Going to drive to the guys house and test this Mapex out on Thursday or Saturday ....waiting for his phone call back.....excited too

Good to see you've been trained correctly.  Otherwise, 20 years down the road (possibly long after the drumset is gone) you'll STILL be hen-pecked for buying it without consultation!

Mooch4056

Oh yeah ...from our wedding gift mony...1000 has been approved for my fun by the chose one  

Were you able to convince "The Chosen One" that the $1000 fund was her idea?  This is very important!

Psalmist35

Mooch4056

Oh yeah ...from our wedding gift mony...1000 has been approved for my fun by the chose one  

Were you able to convince "The Chosen One" that the $1000 fund was her idea?  This is very important!

Trust me ...she got the deal.....we got $6000 all togethern in cash gifts ..... I got 1000 ....she got 5000.... Most going to pay off HER credit cards 





Who got the bargain ..... I got 1/6.......she got 5/6....


All I get is a used drum set and. I am not even a drummer 

Now she just yelled at me cuz I told the forum how much in gifts we got and I am "tacky" 


(shrugs)